Success?

For those of you who haven't checked out the blog "escape from Obesity," also a blogspot blog, please do so. Her subject matter today is Success without Perfection. It's a good one. Lynn (that's her name) says that you can have success without having perfection. That's true, partly. With the plan I am on, in order to have the kind of success one truly desires, you pretty much have to be perfect. No bites, no licks, no tastes, no beer, no wine...measuring everything, tracking everything...perfect. When I was/am perfect I see 4-5 pound losses per week. Phenomenal results. When I am not perfect, I don't see those results. Does it make me any less successful? Perhaps. In the immediate, yes, I am less successful if I am not perfect. When I look at the big picture, no..any loss is a loss and if I see progress without being perfect I am successful. (I think my thinking on that comes from being a Cyclone fan all my life. A loss (of weight) is a loss no matter how it was achieved no matter how ugly it was, like a win is a win, no matter how it was achieved or how ugly it was, and I'm perfectly okay with that.)
I know that when I am not perfect, I am only prolonging my time on this program, spending more dollars in food in order to get to my goal and pushing my goal back by days/weeks/months. Its a vicious cycle that I have come to accept.
Now, how about you? Can you accept success without perfection? Great..wonderful, you may be getting your head wrapped around this whole little game called a lifestyle change. If you cannot accept it, then good luck with whatever plan you choose, there will be no pleasing you. Life is not about perfection. NO ONE is perfect all the time. You will fail if you expect to be perfect every step of the way. Sorry, life's a bitch.
My rambling half assed point here is this....you do not have to be perfect to be successful. You have to be accountable to yourself and satisfied with the results you are getting. Be happy that you're seeing a loss of one or two pounds and not a gain. Be happy that your face looks thinner when you look in the mirror. Be happy that you have to buy new skivvies because your old ones are falling off your ass. BUT,  If you find yourself making excuses or "settling" perhaps its time to re-evaluate the "why" in all of this.
Oh and one more thing...I don't think that the white shorts will make the trip to Mexico...their passport has been denied. NOT because they don't fit...they do. Its that whole "skewed perception" thing I have going on..you see, when hanging on the hanger, the white shorts looked like a normal pair of white denim shorts that would work wonderfully in Mexico. My problem with them is once you take them off the hanger and pull them over someone who has curves and an ass, her ass cheeks literally stick out the bottom of said white shorts. While I am all for a good pair of "shorts" I don't think Dan's bosses need to see those "cheeks" smiling at them. Sorry white shorts, your passport is just not valid.